Saturday, March 7, 2009

Goats do Roam 2005


Goats do Roam.


Get it?


It's supposed to sound like "Cotes du Rhone," the great French wine it's supposed to emulate.


Only it doesn't.


It tastes like your average consumer wine of today, using heavy tannins and little fruit to balance that is supposed to make it seem sophisticated. You can taste some blackberry and blueberry flavors but throughout it starts, moves and ends with that tannic taste that coats the tongue.


Goats do Roam, a South African wine, is only $11 a bottle but the vintners want it to taste more like the wines in the Cotes du Rhone appellation. Those wines vary in style and cost, but of the many French styles, you can get a Rhone wine at a good price that has great fruit flavors with enough structure to make it a great wine. In fact, if you're like me and learning about wines and want to learn French wines at good prices, the Rhone region is a great place to start.


For this price, you can do better.

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